Competency Based Interviewing Techniques

1. Competency Based
Interviews
What Are They? And How to Answer Them?

2. Overview
• Objectives
• Competency Based Interviews – Some Background
Research
• Answering Competency Based Questions
• Examples: Director of Marketing
• Questions

3. Objectives
• Understand what competency based interviews are?
• Competency based interview questions - the best format in which to
answer them?

4. Competency Based Interviews

5. Competency Based Interviews – Some
Background Research
The basis for all competency based interviews (CBIs) is a list of key
competencies which the recruiting organization holds as important for
the role.

6. Competency Based Interviews – Some
Background Research
Competency based interviews (sometimes referred to as situational or
behavioural interviews) are increasingly superseding other interview
formats within the selection and assessment

7. Competency Based Interviews – Some
Background Research
Competency based interviews differ from semi structured/informal
interviews by being highly structured and tailored specifically to the
competency framework of the role

8. Answering Competency Based Questions
When answering competency based questions the answers
should always take the following format:
• What was that the situation?
• What did you do?
• What was the outcome?
• What would you differently?
or

9. Examples: Director of Marketing
Competency: Creativity and Innovation
• Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional
approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and
implements new or cutting edge programs/processes:
Competency Based Question: Tell us about a project or situation where
you felt that the conventional approach would not be suitable. How did
you derive and manage a new approach? Which challenges did you
face and how did you address them?

10. Questions?
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